THIS IS MORE OF A COMMENT THAN A QUESTION

press stop

Every Q&A should start with the host saying, “Now it’s time for the Q&A part of the event. Then, if there’s time, we can do a little ‘This is more of a comment than a question’ (TIMOACTAQ), before which, anyone who is not interested in the comments of others in the audience will be given a chance to leave.”

With that social contract declared, anyone who prematurely TIMOACTAQs in the Q&A time gets booed at. Fingers in ears, “la la la I’m not listening” until the person sits down or leaves.

We can do anything together. We collectively changed the pronunciation of “literally” to “litch-rully”; I’m sure we can publicly disarm the TIMOACTAQs of the literary world.